f34 release notes for sway
by Aleksei Bavshin
Greetings,
Let's start this message from the good news: Fedora 34 was released with
Sway 1.6 available as a day 0 update. We're getting a lot of bugfixes,
shiny new wlroots DRM renderer backend, and of course new bugs :)
## Upstream release notes:
- https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/1.6
- https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/releases/tag/0.13.0
## Default configuration changes for Fedora package:
A couple of configuration snippets are now provided by the optional
dependency sway-systemd:
- `/etc/sway/config.d/10-systemd-session.conf` - configures systemd
user session environment
- `/etc/sway/config.d/10-systemd-cgroups.conf` - configures automatic
management of cgroups for GUI applications in sway session (#1935923)
Detailed documentation:
https://github.com/alebastr/sway-systemd/blob/main/README.md
### Opt-in for users with custom config file:
`include /etc/sway/config.d/*` directive in the default configuration
already includes these snippets. If you removed the line from your
custom config file, you can restore it or just include the parts you
want. (the configuration files may change in the future, so it is better
to include them instead of copying the contents).
### Opt-out options:
- Remove `sway-systemd` package and add it to `excludepkgs` in the
`fedora`, `updates` and `updates-testing` repository configuration
- Remove `include` directives that match the files listed above from
your sway config file.
- Edit `/etc/sway/config.d/*.conf` files and comment all uncommented
lines. Be aware that the future updates of sway-systemd package may
create `/etc/sway/config.d/*.conf.rpmnew` files which are also sourced
by sway
## grimshot
`grimshot` screenshot helper script from the sway/contrib source
directory is now offered as a `grimshot` package. It provides several
convenient wrappers around grim, slurp and wl-copy.
## xdg-desktop-portal-wlr 0.3.0
Just a heads up that the updated xdpw package now asks you to select the
output you'd like to share. It does that using `slurp` though, so it's
completely understandable if you get confused first time that happens :)
See OUTPUT CHOOSER section of `man 5 xdg-desktop-portal-wlr` to
configure alternative chooser command (dmenu, rofi, wofi, etc...).
Deprecation warning: if you have xdg-desktop-portal-wlr.service override
with `-o` option for xdpw, you may want to remove it and use chooser or
specify desired output as an option in the configuration file.
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## Known issues:
- Sway may fail to start with *any* GPU (including integrated Intel)
if the libs from the proprietary NVIDIA driver are installed. Even if
the kernel module for NVIDIA driver is not loaded.
Upstream link: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/issues/2480
Solution: ensure that libglvnd >= 1.3.2-4.fc34 is installed
- Artifacts and glitches with Nouveau open-source driver for NVIDIA cards.
Upstream link:
https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki#sway-16-shows-garbage-on-nouveau
Solution: start sway with WLR_DRM_NO_MODIFIERS=1 environment
variable, i.e. `env WLR_DRM_NO_MODIFIERS=1 /usr/bin/sway`
Will be fixed with mesa 21.1.x update somewhere in May.
- Sway or any other wlroots-based compositor refuses to start on
Allwinner SOC devices with `lima` open-source driver (PinePhone et al.).
Upstream link: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/issues/2795
Solution: wait for mesa 21.1.x update somewhere in May. Meanwhile,
sway-1.5.1 is still available in f34 repositories and should work on
this hardware.
- Mouse cursor is not visible in some apps on a scaled output
Upstream:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/issues/194,
https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/6166
Solution: a comment in the sway issue mentions that certain cursor
themes are not affected. I cannot provide further guidance due to the
lack of HiDPI display, so suggestions with the working cursor theme
available from Fedora repositories are welcome.
- Applications started as a systemd user service are failing to
connect to a wayland socket.
Solution: see default configuration changes section above
- Sway with all applications is terminated on low memory condition.
Solutions:
a) remove systemd-oomd-defaults package to disable systemd OOM killer
b) see default configuration changes section above
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I'm certain that I forgot to mention a lot of things, so feel free to
reply with the changes you consider important :)
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Best regards,
Aleksei Bavshin
2 years, 12 months
sway main maintainer
by Till Hofmann
Hi all,
I have just orphaned sway, as in practice, I no longer do the main
maintenance tasks. Aleksei has done awesome work and I think this should
be reflected in the main contact.
Feel free to take over the package! :)
Thanks,
Till
3 years
wlroots 0.13.0 update for rawhide and f34
by Aleksei Bavshin
Greetings,
wlroots 0.13.0 and sway 1.6 have been released today. As usual, the
update is API and ABI breaking and all dependent packages must be
rebuilt. For all the dependents I identified either upstream patches or
ETA for the new release and have successful copr builds.
I'm planning to create rawhide side-tag later today, rebuild all
@sway-sig packages and send PRs with instructions to the packages I
don't have access to. The side-tag will be merged in a week or when all
the rebuilds are done.
I also plan to prepare a day 0 update for f34 once rawhide rebuilds are
completed. Let me know if you have any concerns about that.
BCC: maintainer aliases for cage, labwc, phoc and wayfire
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With best regards,
Aleksei Bavshin
3 years
